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Narrative of the capture and providential escape of Misses Frances and Almira Hall: two respectable young women (sisters) of the ages of 16 and 18, who were taken prisoners by the savages, at a frontier settlement near Indian Creek, in May last

War and Pestilence !
CAPTURE OF TWO YOUNG LADIES BY THE SAVAGES
The preceding year will be long remembered in America as a year of much human distress,
While many of our most populous cities have been visited by that dreadful disease, the Cholera, and to which thousands have fallen victims, the merciless Savages have been as fatally engaged in the work of death on the frontiers ; where great numbers (including women and children) have fallen victims to the bloody tomahawk !

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War and Pestilence !
CAPTURE OF TWO YOUNG LADIES BY THE SAVAGES
The preceding year will be long remembered in America as a year of much human distress,
While many of our most populous cities have been visited by that dreadful disease, the Cholera, and to which thousands have fallen victims, the merciless Savages have been as fatally engaged in the work of death on the frontiers ; where great numbers (including women and children) have fallen victims to the bloody tomahawk !